Thursday, February 6. 2014

This has been my home-work for the winter. Yes, I have been busy working in my basement workshop, installing latches, repairing, and painting more brass 2612 windows frames for installation. Here's the report on my progress todate.

Right and left hand window latches primed and painted in my basement Thanks to Jane Blackburn for sandblasting many of these parts

One of 18 painted frames waiting for installation of the window latches

Here is a window frame before it has been sandblasted.

Kyle and Gary have sandblasted most of these frames earlier in the fall. I then took them home to complete the restorations.

Another member of our team, Dan Bixler, has also been working at his home cleaning and painting the brass window strips that hold the window frame into the car body. So far he has painted about 60 of these strips and will bring them to Irm when its gets warmer!

Here is a similar frame with installed working latches, new bottom gasket and caution sign applied

A sample of the 18 frames waiting for the arrival of glass panes. They will be installed w/ gasketing in my basement staring the week of Feb 10th

As many of you remember, we began our efforts to restore this car, for operation, in February, 2013. With Mike Baksic's encouragement we hope to meet our two year time frame.

Want to become part of the "Team 2612"???!!! If your interested you can contact me thu email or call and leave a phone message at the museum's number. 815 923-4391. Thanks. With the Frisco 1630, steam engine running this year we will need the increased capacity this car offers on the steam train.

As soon as the weather gets a little warmer[I hope we don't have to await too long] our crew will again be busy installing windows and installing parts on the coach. WHY NOT JOIN US!!. Roger

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Nigel Bennett about Steam Department Update June 2015Wed, 07-29-2015 07:42Subject to the general caveat that
a 100 year old steam engine can
always develop a last minute fault,
it is planned that #1630 will
operate 8/1 and [...]

CincyCubfan23 about Steam Department Update June 2015Wed, 07-29-2015 06:28Nigel - First, THANK YOU for all
the work you do (and everyone else
at IRM, for that matter)!
I believe I know the answer, but
I'll ask anyhow. [...]

Nathan about Steam Department Update June 2015Mon, 07-27-2015 16:26Nigel,
All matters of practicality do
indeed have to be taken into
consideration.
That said, as another suggestion,
you may want to talk to your [...]

Nigel Bennett about Steam Department Update June 2015Mon, 07-27-2015 07:38Nathan,
All ideas to be considered and
depends on how this year turns
out.
The big reason we run Thomas over
the route we do is the space [...]

Nathan about Steam Department Update June 2015Sun, 07-26-2015 19:24Hi Nigel,
Just noticed the comments and plans
for Thomas on this thread and am
intrigued.
It seems like a great idea to have
#1630 push the Percy [...]

Nigel Bennett about Steam Department Update June 2015Sun, 07-26-2015 09:41Andrew,
No. The Thomas train will follow
its normal route.
There will be two event trains, the
Thomas train and the Percy train
(standard DOWT [...]

Nigel Bennett about Steam Department Update June 2015Sat, 07-25-2015 08:45Peter,
The Thomas days will be
significantly different this year.
There will be a Percy train as well
as a Thomas train and, subject to
the [...]

Peter D. about Steam Department Update June 2015Fri, 07-24-2015 23:51Greetings: Quick question regarding
steam operations...In addition to
Thomas, when would you expect a
steam locomotive to be on the
tacks. Thanks.